Davos Diary Archive: Ruth Marcus

The only thing that annoys Bill Clinton more than Republicans running elections in “a parallel universe divorced from reality” is Democrats who let them get away with it. In a conversation that touched on everything from the ancient Sumerians to...

The Swiss? Great at snow. Washington? Not so much. So a significant chunk of the U.S. contingent scheduled to be here — where the snow is whisked away and the World Economic Forum laptop bags came equipped with crampons to...

Summers and Chua, that is. The dinner discussion was scheduled before Chua became mama non grata in some quarters; her academic work focuses on the more Davos-y topic of globalization and empire. But in Davos, as elsewhere, talk about Chua’s...